Kandahar (Afghanistan), March 14 – A series of five explosions and gunfire killed at least 35 people, including police forces in southern city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman said Sunday.
The Taliban called the attacks a reaction to the NATO commander’s warning about an imminent military offensive in the region.
Several insurgents equipped with suicide vests [...]
Tehran, March 14 – Iran claimed to have busted a spy racket allegedly linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data related to Iran’s nuclear scientists.
The Judiciary said Saturday it has dismantled a US-backed cyber network, which was set up to gather information [...]
Jerusalem, March 13 – Groups of young Palestinians rioted Saturday in the old city of Jerusalem and the West bank after Israeli police closed both areas to devout Muslims seeking to go to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Temple Mount.
Five of the rioters were arrested.
Arab youths tried to break through Israeli police controls at the [...]
Doha, March 13 – Some 1,500 delegates representing 175 parties to a treaty designed to protect endangered species around the world on Saturday gathered in Qatar to discuss how best to protect wildlife.
Bluefin tuna, elephants, polar bears, and a wide variety of reptiles, insects, plants and corals would top the agenda of the two-week conference [...]
Kabul, March 13 – Afghan President Hamid Karzai is ready to include two international monitors in the country’s election watchdog ahead of parliamentary polls in September, his spokesman said Saturday.
Karzai amended the electoral law last month, giving him the power to appoint all five members of Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC), a UN-backed body that [...]
Baghdad, March 13 – Iraq’s electoral commission Saturday released, then quickly withdrew, early results from Baghdad that showed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition leading in the capital.
Al-Sumaria television reported that the electoral commission had said the early results from Baghdad, which will be represented by 68 out of 325 seats in the new parliament, released [...]
Kabul, March 13 – Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to jointly fight against terrorism and extremism in the region and emphasised that terror is a common threat for both countries, the Afghan president’s chief spokesman, Waheed Omar, said Saturday.
‘Since the past two years, the two courties have found that terrorism and extremism is the common [...]
Baghdad, March 13 – As early results from Iraq’s parliamentary elections trickled in, leading politicians Saturday began what promised to be complicated negotiations on forming a government.
Iraqi state television reported that only 18 percent of the vote had been counted in Baghdad, by far the largest electoral prize in the race, and that only 16 [...]
Kabul, March 13 – Six civilians were killed and one injured as a roadside bomb went off in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province Saturday, a statement from the interior ministry said.
‘The tragic incident occurred this morning at around 07:30 a.m. local time in Nachin village outside the provincial capital Trinkot as a result six innocent civilians [...]
Cairo, March 13 – Thirty people were injured when clashes broke out between Christians and Muslims in a rural area in northern Egypt, media reports said.
Fighting erupted late Friday in the north-western governorate of Mersa Matrouh over a fence Muslims said had been built to take over a piece of land to build a church, [...]
